Healthcare Disclosure

"As the health care debate enters this critical period, listeners should be aware that I have in recent years given paid speeches or paid advice to doctor groups, hospitals, pharmaceutical firms and insurance companies, as well as to low income advocacy groups promoting universal coverage.  In all of these contexts I have offered the same views of public policy that can be found in my books, columns, articles and commentary on Left Right &Center."

-- Matt Miller

 

Financial Disclosure

 

In the interests of disclosure, as listeners should know that I receive compensation as an advisor to various financial organizations which include The National Association of State Insurance Commissioners;  S & P,   Proshares Fund;  Magnetar  Fund.

-- Tony Blankley

 

 
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Left, Right & Center

Left, Right & Center

Provocative, up-to-the-minute, alive and witty, KCRW's weekly confrontation over politics, policy and popular culture proves those with impeccable credentials needn't lack personality. This weekly "love-hate relationship of the air" features four of the most insightful news analysts anywhere.

Photo from L-R: Matt Miller, Arianna Huffington, Tony Blankley, Robert Scheer

Photo credit: Marc Goldstein

 

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Hosts

Arianna Huffington

Arianna Huffington (independent progressive) is the editor of the Webby Award-wining online newpaper, Huffington Post, a nationally syndicated columnist and author of twelve books, most recently Right Is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safe.

Tony Blankley

Tony Blankley (Right), who served as press secretary to former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, is a syndicated columnist and former editorial page editor of the Washington Times. He is Executive Vice President of Edelman Public Relations in Washington, DC and a visiting senior fellow in national security communications at the Heritage Foundation. He is also the author, most recently, of American Grit: What It Will Take to Survive and Win in the 21st Century, published by Regnery.

Matt Miller

Matt Miller (center/moderator) is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress; a weekly columnist for the Washington Post's online edition; and an award-winning contributor to The Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times Magazine and many other publications.  A former aide in the Clinton White House, Miller's first book, The Two Percent Solution: Fixing America's Problems In Ways Liberals And Conservatives Can Love, was a Los Angeles Times bestseller. His new book, The Tyranny of Dead Ideas, was just released in paperback.

 

Robert Scheer

Robert Scheer (Left) is Editor of the Webby Award-winning political website TruthDig.com. He was a national correspondent and columnist for 19 years at the Los Angeles Times where he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Currently a columnist represented by Creators Syndicate, Scheer is a clinical professor in communications at the University of Southern California.  He has authored eight books most recently most recently The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America. His new book, The Great American Stickup: Greedy Bankers and the Politicians Who Love Them, will be published by Nation books in the spring.

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